Thursday, 12 July 2012

Storyteller Nominated

Award nominations are always gratifying to receive,
especially if the nominations are collated from a poll of fellow comic book
professionals, as indeed the Harvey Awards are. What made it even sweeter was
that I discovered this fact on my birthday, and after suffering two and a half
days with a migraine.

My book, Alan Moore: Storyteller has been nominated in the
category for for Best Biographical, Historical, or Journalistic Presentation
along with four other fine publications, and I am correspondingly humbled by
this great honour. I’ve received a number of nominations for Strangehaven and
other works over the years, but this is the first time I've had anything
recognised by the Harvey Awards (named after the great Harvey Kurtzman), which is very satisfying.

Voting is open for all until Friday 17 August 2012, but only
those working in a creative aspect of the comics industry are eligible to cast
their vote. You can read the entire list of nominations here.

Quitely's cover for the French Storyteller

Courtesy of my kind publishers Ilex Press I some while ago
received the gorgeous French language edition of the book, with a rather
splendid cover by Frank Quitely. I also understand that there are several other
translated editions in the works, all of which is very pleasing.

In addition, I was alerted to another favourable review of
the book by my good friend smoky man. The very kind Jason Sacks wrote for the Comics Bulletin website, “This book is a really overwhelming experience for any Moore fan.
It's like Christmas in a book.” Which is sort of what I was going for. You can read the review in full here.